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Who We Are
ROOTED IN THE PROTESTANT METHODIST FAITH
Bethel is part of the global denomination of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was founded during the year 1848 in a small village located in back of the St. Rose Lima cemetery on Route 522 in Freehold Township. This area was known as Squirrel Town the original building no longer exists, was built in 1867. After a few years at that location, the Church moved to Freehold borough, where the congregation worshipped in a small building in an area called the Peach Orchard, now known as Avenue A.
Bethel is part of the global denomination of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was founded during the year 1848 in a small village located in back of the St. Rose Lima cemetery on Route 522 in Freehold Township. This area was known as Squirrel Town the original building no longer exists, was built in 1867. After a few years at that location, the Church moved to Freehold borough, where the congregation worshipped in a small building in an area called the Peach Orchard, now known as Avenue A.
What We Do
OUR MISSION
Our mission is move beyond the walls of the church to serve the community by meeting the spiritual, social, emotional and physical needs of the community., encouraging the spiritual formation through worship, study of God’s Word and living out the teaching of Jesus Christ, ensuring the growth and development of youth and young adults to live out the plan an purpose of their lives while exercising our stewardship through the giving of our tithes and offering, gifts and graces.
Our mission is move beyond the walls of the church to serve the community by meeting the spiritual, social, emotional and physical needs of the community., encouraging the spiritual formation through worship, study of God’s Word and living out the teaching of Jesus Christ, ensuring the growth and development of youth and young adults to live out the plan an purpose of their lives while exercising our stewardship through the giving of our tithes and offering, gifts and graces.
What's Different
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
Churches have always been crucial to the African American experience and Bethel fulfills that role. Through the years Bethel has been a place where people come to pray, to meet, to reflect, to laugh, to cry, mourn and to celebrate. Bethel is proud of its’ legacy and its’ importance. We were founded to predominantly serve and minster to the needs of the African American Community and persons of color. Although, our doors are open to all, we are proud to be members of the "Black Church".
Churches have always been crucial to the African American experience and Bethel fulfills that role. Through the years Bethel has been a place where people come to pray, to meet, to reflect, to laugh, to cry, mourn and to celebrate. Bethel is proud of its’ legacy and its’ importance. We were founded to predominantly serve and minster to the needs of the African American Community and persons of color. Although, our doors are open to all, we are proud to be members of the "Black Church".